TriQuint Semi cuts jobsNews & Analysis 4/30/2012 Post a commentTriQuint Semiconductor cut about 70 jobs in Florida and plans to also cut jobs in Costa Rica as part of a plan to restructure the company's SAW filter manufacturing operations.

NXP today: 'Practically a Chinese company'News & Analysis 4/30/2012 33 commentsRick Clemmer, NXP’s CEO, said last week, NXP today is “practically a Chinese company.” NXP makes more money in China than in any other single country. Further, the Dutch company employs 8,000 people in China.

Broadcom rolls two-port 100G switchNews & Analysis 4/30/2012 2 commentsBroadcom brings to Interop 2012 next week its BCM88650, a high-end switching fabric that sports two 100G ports and also can be flexibly used for 10 and 40G nets.

Huawei to give Intel LTE development support in ChinaNews & Analysis 4/30/2012 4 commentsIntel's aspirations selling chips for mobile equipment have received a boost with the news that Huawei has agreed to work with Intel on the testing and rapid deployment of the time division duplex format applied to Long Term Evolution standard.

2012 chip market to grow 7%, says analystNews & Analysis 4/30/2012 1 commentGrowth in the semiconductor market will accelerate in the second half of 2012 and achieve an annual percentage figure of 6 to 7 percent, according to Mali Venkatesan, research manager for semiconductors at International Data Corp.

PolyCore upgrades multicore development toolProduct News 4/29/2012 3 commentsPolyCore Software Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.) has upgraded its Poly-Platform tool to version 2.0 with the inclusion of Poly-Mapper which provides control of memory used for messaging in multi-core software.

Pixel Qi claims it can beat iPad displayNews & Analysis 4/26/2012 9 commentsPixel Qi, a developer of reflective liquid crystal displays that can be read in sunlight thereby saving power, has announced that it can produce a screen with higher image quality than the iPad 3 retina screen.